Presenters: Michael Day, Kathy Fitch, Megan Hughes, Kenneth King, and Andrew Milson

New!  Kathy Fitch's Webfolios for Assessment Guide!

Please introduce yourself

• Tell us a bit about yourself, your classes, your experience with computers, and your reasons for being interested in electronic portfolio assessment.
• Tell us your goals and dreams, what you most want to accomplish with electronic portfolios, and what limitations, such as your knowledge and your students' knowledge, or access to computers, might keep you from realizing those goals and dreams.

For assessment

• Saves space
• Encourages reflective practice
• Writing as a way of knowing and demonstrating what you know
• Allows for individual learning styles and learning programs
• Allows collaborative and individual negotiations of the evaluation criteria


For professional development
 

• Feedback and networking: Webfolios allow for interaction with outside professional communities
• Ethos and credibility: Public forum means greater accountability for student work
• Public presence: An informal stepping stone to more formal publication
• Accountability to other students generates cooperation and experience in collaborative teams
• Decentered classroom: everyone shares ideas and becomes an expert from time to time
• Real world experience with collaboration the way it happens in the workplace
• Electronic version allows documentation of artifacts in different media (samples of student work, video of teaching)

• Michael Day's Writing for Electronic Media Class
• Kathy Fitch's Online Courses
• Syllaweb as Teaching Webfolio
• Megan Hughes' Webfolios
• Megan's Workshop Example Pages
• Student WebQuests for Elementary Social Studies
• Elementary Science Education Documentation
• Peg Syverson's Online Learning Record
• Creating Electronic Portfolios Class at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• California State University, Los Angeles Webfolio Project
• Ted Nellen's High School Webfolios
• Fine Arts Portfolios from George Washington University
• Final Project Webfolios from University of Georgia Writing for the World Wide Web Class
• A Computer Science Student's Webfolio
• A Mechanical Engineering Student's Webfolio
• A Professional Engineer's Webfolio
• Rich Rice's MS Word-Only Porfolios (download)

• Do a search in your field for examples of electronic portfolios.
• Use search terms such as "webfolio," "electronic portfolio,"  or " resume," combined with the name or synonym of the name of your field.
• Use your favorite search engine, or the quick favorite, Google.
• Report back to the group
• What did you find?
• Would any of the features of what you found be appropriate for your class?
• How would you modify the electronic portfolios to fit your needs?

• Public or private?
• What to include?
• Design: fancy or functional?
• Software and lab concerns
• How to assign?
• How to assess?
• Text or multimedia?
• Plagiarism
• Metadiscourse: need for reflection
• Social Construction
• Promoting higher level thinking, application
• Student learning curve: Why computers?